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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Stevenson's receptionist in Chapter 11?
(a) Angela.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) Sharon.
(d) Gina.

2. Who was the judge who dismissed all charges against McMillian?
(a) Pamela Baschab.
(b) Rebecca Horseman.
(c) David Andrew Martin
(d) Robert E. Lee Key.

3. How much money was Stevenson able to get McMillian for being wrongly incarcerated?
(a) A few hundred thousand dollars.
(b) About a half a million dollars.
(c) $300,000.
(d) $450,000.

4. How long after Ronda Morrison's murder was McMillian's truck converted to a low-rider?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 18 months.

5. In Chapter 12, how many of the women on Alabama's death row were condemned for deaths of their young children or the deaths of abusive spouses or boyfriends?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Assistant Attoney General Don Valeska in Chapter 9?

2. When did Gulley, McCants, and Sullivan break into a house in Pensacola, Florida?

3. According to McCleskey v. Kemp, how many times more likely were offenders in Georgia likely to get the death penalty if the victim was white?

4. In Chapter 11, how many years ago had an African American civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Georgia, named Robert Robinson been murdered by a bomb exploding in his office?

5. In 1992, for how many prisoners had McMillian's team won relief in death penalty cases?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what did Judge Norton say about the length of the Rule 32 hearing?

2. What was Joe Sullivan indicted for and why?

3. What was Bernard Harcourt's background?

4. Why was Trina Garnett arrested for?

5. In Chapter 11, why did Stevenson have to take bomb threats seriously?

6. How did Stevenson's grandfather die?

7. What law was passed in Alabama in 2006 and what were its ramifications?

8. Where did McMillian decided to live in Chapter 13?

9. Why did Stevenson's office in Atlanta sue Angola Prison?

10. How did Marsha Colbey give her kids her heart?

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